Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-11-03 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > >> So then to paraphrase Jon Stewart, you'd like to politely disagree with me? > > I think that would be quite reasonable. > > ;-) Perhaps we could discuss our differences over a spot of tea? [1] > > This is not to say

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-11-03 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Nov 3, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > So then to paraphrase Jon Stewart, you'd like to politely disagree with me? I think that would be quite reasonable. ;-) This is not to say that I'm above printf debugging -- I do it all the time. But... I know what I'm doing. Ahem. But se

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-11-03 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Nov 3, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > >> Well-placed printf statements are tough to beat. > > Ouch. > > Please read: > > - http://blogs.cisco.com/ciscotalk-performance/parallel_debugging/. > - http://cw.squyres.com/columns/2004-12-CW-MPI-Mechanic.pdf > - ht

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-11-03 Thread Jeff Squyres
On Nov 3, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Well-placed printf statements are tough to beat. Ouch. Please read: - http://blogs.cisco.com/ciscotalk-performance/parallel_debugging/. - http://cw.squyres.com/columns/2004-12-CW-MPI-Mechanic.pdf - http://cw.squyres.com/columns/2005-01-CW-MP

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-11-03 Thread David Zhang
totalview On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Jack Bryan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Would you please recommend a debugger, which can do debugging for > > parallel processes > > on Open MPI systems ? > > > > I hope that it can be installed without root right because I am not a >

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-11-03 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Jack Bryan wrote: > Hi, > > Would you please recommend a debugger, which can do debugging for > parallel processes > on Open MPI systems ? > > I hope that it can be installed without root right because I am not a > root user for our > MPI cluster. > > Any help is appreciated. > Well-placed

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-10-29 Thread Ashley Pittman
ks > > > From: ash...@pittman.co.uk > > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:38:25 +0100 > > To: us...@open-mpi.org > > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI > > > > > > Can you try the following and send me the output. > &

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-10-29 Thread Jack Bryan
gt; > > > thanks > > Jinxu Ding > > > > Oct. 29 2010 > > > > > > > From: ash...@pittman.co.uk > > > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:21:46 +0100 > > > To: us...@open-mpi.org > > > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-10-29 Thread Ashley Pittman
ng. > > How to check whether my system has pbs_pro ? > > Any help is appreciated. > > thanks > Jinxu Ding > > Oct. 29 2010 > > > > From: ash...@pittman.co.uk > > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:21:46 +0100 > > To: us...@open-mpi.org > > Subje

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-10-29 Thread Jack Bryan
> From: ash...@pittman.co.uk > Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:21:46 +0100 > To: us...@open-mpi.org > Subject: Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI > > > On 29 Oct 2010, at 12:06, Jeremy Roberts wrote: > > > I'd suggest looking into TotalView

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-10-29 Thread Ashley Pittman
On 29 Oct 2010, at 12:06, Jeremy Roberts wrote: > I'd suggest looking into TotalView (http://www.totalviewtech.com) and/or DDT > (http://www.allinea.com/). I've used TotalView pretty extensively and found > it to be pretty easy to use. They are both commercial, however, and not > cheap. >

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-10-29 Thread Brian Austin
I find that using mpirun to launch multiple instance of a serial debugger is fairly usable (but not perfect) for jobs with fewer than about four processes. A description of how to do this is here: http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=debugging The biggest drawbacks to this approach are that a) se

Re: [OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-10-29 Thread Jeremy Roberts
I'd suggest looking into TotalView (http://www.totalviewtech.com) and/or DDT (http://www.allinea.com/). I've used TotalView pretty extensively and found it to be pretty easy to use. They are both commercial, however, and not cheap. As far as I know, there isn't a whole lot of open source support

[OMPI users] open MPI please recommend a debugger for open MPI

2010-10-29 Thread Jack Bryan
Hi, Would you please recommend a debugger, which can do debugging for parallel processes on Open MPI systems ? I hope that it can be installed without root right because I am not a root user for ourMPI cluster. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Jack Oct. 28 2010